Speaking Way Up: Nikieta Lambert, Erika Cheung & Jessica Willis Fisher

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

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Ready for another remix? This episode features highlights with some of the bravest women to grace our feed. From escaping childhood abuse and religious cults, these outspoken women did what was right in the moment, despite the immense pressure and abuse weighing down on them.

Nikita Lambert spent 15 years climbing the ranks at the evangelical International Churches of Christ (ICOC) before she became an outspoken voice against the institution.

At 22, Erika Cheung joined the ranks at Theranos, only to blow the whistle less than a year later, taking down a billion-dollar company and its web of lies. Finally, Jessica Fisher Willis rose to prominence with her talented family, but their picture-perfect image covered a culty history of abuse and assault. But, she found her voice, using it as a tool to break away from the damaging family structure that raised her.

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The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.

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CREDITS:

Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames

Production Partner: Citizens of Sound

Producer: Will Retherford

Writer & Co-Creator: Jess Tardy

Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin

Transcript

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0:00.0	This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legalign any religion group club organization business
0:13.8	individual anyone or anything.
0:17.2	Mmhmm.
0:18.2	Mm.
0:21.2	Mm.
0:22.2	Mm. I'm Sarah Edmondson and I'm Anthony air quotes nippy Ames and this is a little bit
0:31.0	guilty a podcast about what happens when things that seem like a great thing at first go bad.
0:36.0	Every week we chat with survivors, experts, and whistleblowers for real cult stories told directly by the people who live through them.
0:43.2	Because we want you to learn a few things we've had to learn the hard way.
0:46.7	Like if you think you're too smart to get sucked into something culty,
0:50.3	you're already prime recruitment material. You might even already be in a cold.
0:54.0	Oops, you better keep listening to find out.
0:57.0	Welcome to season six of a little bit colty.
1:00.0	Sinking down to the depths of the ocean
1:05.0	hanging on to win my love
1:09.0	if I let go up on it all I could leave but I know
1:16.6	Welcome back ALBC listeners we are wrapping up our summer hiatus.
1:22.3	We didn't want to leave you hanging. Got some things in
1:24.7	store for you. Sarah wants to do a little chit chat before we get into things so.
1:28.0	Just want to tell people what we're up to. Keep it natch as she says. We're
1:31.5	coming back from our whirlwind almost seven weeks in Canada.
1:35.5	Weather was glorious, thank you very much. We're not supposed to tell people that.
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